Grain-distributing spout.



No. 667,347. Patented Feb. 5, Mil.

C. P. SMITH.

GRAIN DISTRIBUTING SPOUT.

(Application filed July so, 1900. (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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GRAIN DISTRIBUTING SPOUT.

A nmimi filed July so, 1900.

(no Model.)

2 Sheets8heet 2 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

CARLOS P. SMITH, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT GERBER, OF SAME PLACE.

GRAIN-DISTRIBUTING SPOUT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of .Letters Patent No. 667,347, dated February 5, 1901.

Application filed July 30. 1900. Serial No- 25,276- (No model) T all whim? it y COW/067%: inclined position, as presently noted, and is Be it known that I, CARLOS P. SMITH, a citiprovided with an upturned end a and a downzen of the United States, residing at Minneturned end a the former of which telescopes apolis, in the county of Hennepin and State over the depending tubular portion 5 of the 5 of Minnesota, have invented certain new and hopper 3 and the latter of which is adapted useful Improvements in Grain-Distributing to telescope into and out of the open upper Sponts; and I do hereby declare the follow ends of the bin-spouts Near its upper end ing to be a full, clear, and exact description the spouta is provided with aclamping-band of the invention, such as will enable others 1), preferably formed in sections united by 1o skilled in the art to which it appertains to bolts b. At its sides the band I) is provided make and use the same. with trunnions b journaled in the upper ends My invention has for its object to provide ofa pronged head 0, which is secured to the an improvement in grain-distributing spouts upper end of a tubular shaft or pipe 0. The of the type used in elevators to distribute the shaft or pipe 0 is vertically disposed in line 15 grain from the elevated hopper to the various with the axis of the tubular hopper-section 5, bin-spouts. and at its lowerend it is shown as journaled To the above end the invention consists of in a socket 6, secured on the platform or floor the novel devices and combinations of de- 1. findicates a bracket or arm which provices hereinafter described,and defined in the jects radially from the intermediate portion 20 claims. of the shaft 0' and is pronged or bifurcated The invention is illustrated in the accompaat its outer end, as shown at f. The prongs nying drawings, wherein like charactersindif are provided with outturned trunnionsf cate like parts throughout the several views. on which the intermediate bifurcated or split Figure 1 is a view principally in side elevaportion g of a lifting-lever g is pivoted, as 25 tion, but with some parts sectioned and others best shown in Fig. at. A link It on each side broken away, showing a distributing-spout of the spout 61. connects the trunnions b and mounted in accordance with my invention. f of the pronged heads 0 and f, respectively; Fig. 2 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but The outer end of the lifting-lever g is conwith the distributing-spout sectioned and nected to the outer end of the spout a, as 30 with certain other parts broken away. Fig. shown, by a short link 9 which connects di- 3 is a transverse section on the line 00 m of rectly toa lug g on the said spout. The split Fig. 1, and Fig. ttisatransverse section on the or bifurcated portion 9 of said lever g emline 11: m of Fig. l. braces and clears the spout a, as best shown The numeral 1 indicates a flooring or platin Fig. 4:. The lever g'is actuated by a cord 5 form, which is assumed to be the floor of the or rope g, which is extended through a pergrain-tower of an elevator. foration 0 in the shaft (3, and then downward The numeral 2 indicates one of a series of through the same and out through a perforabin-spouts, which, as is well known, are 10- tion 6 in the bottom of the socket 6 The cated on the line of a circle open through the rope g may be extended to any point from 40 platform 1 and delivering to the different elewhich it is convenient or desirable to opervator storage-bins. ate the spout.

The numeral 3 indicates the elevated grain- The shaft 0' may be oscillated to carry the hopper, into which the grain is delivered by delivery end of the spout Ct into registration a suitable elevator belt or conveyor, (not with any one of the several bin-spouts by any 5 5 shown,) which runs in a leg or spout 4., a suitable device; but, as shown, saidshaft is v I portion only of which is shown. The bin 3 provided with a sheave 0 over which a rope and leg 4 are suitably supported in any ordi- (not shown) would be run from a point within nary way. As shown, the hopper 3 is proreach of the operator.

vided at its bottom with a depending tubular The distributing-spout a is pivotally sup- I00 50 section 5. ported at its upper end on the trunnions b The distributing-spouta. is supported in an and at its lower end it is supported from the trunnions f through the lever g. H'ence b'y drawing on the rope-g the'outeror'deli'very end of the spout a may be raised above the platform 1 and out of telescoping engagement 4 with the bin-spout. It may of course then be readily moved from one position to an-{ other. When the spout is iproperly :positioned and the rope g being then released, it will fall by gravity, and its lower end a will then fall into the alined spouit2, as shown in Fig. 1. When positioned as shown in Fig. 1, the depending spout end a by telescoping into thebin-spout serves asa 'lockto preventi the spout from being accidentally turned or swung out of alinement with the bin-spout,

and, furthermore, it forms an overlapped joint which-will not permit of spilling'or leakage of grain. If desired, the spout may "be lifted high enough "to clearthe platform '1, slightly turned, and'the'n allowed to rest with its lower end'a bearing on the platform,"in which case under subsequent 'or continued movement of the'spout'a on "the axis of the shaft 0 the'said'depending end of'saidspout willfall into the upper end ofthe nextadjacent bin-spout. In this way an indicator for indicating the position of thespout-might be dispensed with, or even if an indicator were to be used such an action'would prove-tho ac- It will of 'course'be understoodthatthe'invention above described is capable of con-siderable modification. I

It should be noted that the "distributingspout a, is supported fromitsu'pper "surface or from "that portion 'of'the tube which 'is'ndt' subject'to the wear from the running grain. I This is important forthe reason thatintime the grain will wear the bottom-of the tube thin, and if a devicesuchas the lug g -wer'e to be applied to the under rather than the upper'portion of the tube'it would'sooner or later bulge'thetube inward and produce an indentation, which would be subject to still greater wear. By loosening the bolts b of the upper end clampband by removing one of *the Ypiydt bolts of the link g the tube a maybe released'andm-ay-then be drawn upward and removed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. The combination withaninclined delivery-spout suitably supported at its upper end, of a'bifu rcatedlever embracing the said spout, with one end extending above and the other ibelow the same, and a connection suspending the lower end of said spout from the overlying end of said lever, substantially as degscribed.

2. The combination with an elevated hopper, of'a shaft disposed vertically below said hopper and provided with a pronged head, a laterally-projecting lower arm or bracket from saidshafthaving a bifurcated head, a lifting-lever bifurcated at 'its'intermediate portion and pivoted tothe prongs of said lower bracket, and a distributing-spout pivoted at its upper end to said upper end bracket or head and-connected at its lower end to the outerendo'f said lifting-lever, said parts operating substantiallyasdescribed.

3. The combination with-the elevated hopper, of the shaft 0 with bifurcated head 0, thelaterally projectin g armor-bracket f f rom saidsh'aft o having the bifurcated head f,

. the lifting-lever g, bifurcatedat g and =pivotedto the prongs-of said head f, "the'spacing-links h connecting the bifurcated heads c'a'nd jf,the distributing-spout (t pivoted at its upperend to said head a and connected 'ing-lever g, and the rope or flexible connection'g connected'to the-inner'end ofsa'id 1ever 2g and passed downward through said shaft '0', substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I-arfix my signature i-npresence of't'wo witnesses.

CARLOS P. SMITH.

Witnesses:

MOGRORY, F. D. MERCHANT.

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